During the 1909 off-season, the GM/Manager of the Brooklyn Whales, Marques Williams, made the calculated decision to trade star centerfielder Hyman Rickward to the Western League. The decision may have made sense from a baseball perspective–CF Elroy Soame has dazzled with the glove in his debut as a regular starter in Brooklyn–but one group of…
Kensington Jones calls it a career Twin City Empire’s GM John Meeker sat in his seat , looking out the window of the lounge car of the train as the countryside went by. Opening Day 1909 had come and gone, and the Empire was off to a 4-3 start, and were on their way to…
HI Folks! It has been awhile but it is Harry Musgrave back once again to shed some light on 1909 St. Louis Reds. They had a surprisingly good season last year, one in which they finished with the second best record in the Western League but a quite a distance behind Cleveland. If it had…